>> reporter: and mommies like lena will be able to save 20% here, thanks to a program that gives you a discount on car seats, strollers, and cribs, just for ditching your old stuff that could be outdated and potentially unsafe. >> i love that idea. i absolutely love it. >> reporter: and stores love it too. thanks to cash for clunkers, they know big incentives mean big crowds. that's why many companies are taking your trade imperial beaches. radio shack and hewlett-packard will look at your old electronics, give you a quote and the cash to buy new stuff. amazon.com lets you trade in old dvds for a gift card. and with makeup company mac, just bring in six old containers, and you'll get a free lipstick. >> it helps our economy. >> reporter: and it helps out shoppers like lena. this baby will be her first. so she doesn't have any of the beat-up stuff babies r us is hoping to get out of circulation. but that doesn't mean she won't find some. >> i have a brother and sister- in-law who have five kids. i'm going to call them right away. >> reporter: work is already being done to finalize ano

. >> lena, we've got more questions for you. >> lena, it's bertha here in the u.s. ralt of people are worried that we wouldn't see growth in the third quarter and now the latest data here in the u.s. is showing us that we are likely to see that. it looks like we have at least on the surface on track for a recovery even if it's not sustained. just the mere fact of that, if you look out where we are a year ago, isn't that enough to inspire some sort of confidence? when you're a kid and you have training wheels, you think you can't ride without the training wheels, with you although and behold, you look to ride. >> that's right. credit disruption has been the driving force behind the collapse of output in the last 18 months. the to that extent, easing credit conditions have helped companies moving away from the levels will we saw in the second quarter of this year towards some refill as we saw from the ism manufacturing released this week. the signals that we're getting from other parts of the world, the china euro zone, the most striking part of this ur survey is that

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. >> senator kennedy made a personal mission to lena brezhnev to get you out. >> definitely he saved my life in doing so. >> it's an amazing story. her father was called to a meeting at midnight in moscow. >> he showed up at the meeting and ted kennedy is there and he said to my father, i've taken care of it and i've spoken to brezhnev and when we landed at logan airport, senator kennedy was there to meet us. >> today, jessica katz works in new york city finding homes for the homeless. what does it mean to you that he did that? >> i think it gives me a certain sense of responsibility. and something i need to live up to. that he did all this for me and i better pay it forward and make sure that i can go and do good things for other people as well. >> maybe in the end after all the speeches and fierce political battles are forgotten, that's the meaning of this remarkable life. forged in such terrible tragedies, ted kennedy's little-known acts of compassion will be paying forward in this world for a long, long time. and that is the best portion of a good man's life. when we come back, w

lena pons of public citizen says consumers need to know that's illegal. >> if ultimately the transaction is rejected with something having to do with the paperwork submitted incorrectly, that loss is supposed to be sustained by the dealer. >> reporter: while the program provided a boost for the industry, some analysts worry it came at the expense of sales down the road. with inventory low and pent up demand depleted, sales are expected to be weak for the rest of the year. stephanie dhue, "nightly business report," washington. >> susie: some encouraging news today about the u.s. job situation. 17 states, or roughly a third of the nation, showed decreases in unemployment last month. seven states showed no change, but the other 26 showed increasing unemployment. that includes california, nevada, rhode island, and georgia. they reached their highest level of joblessness since the record- keeping began 33 years ago. unemployment in michigan dropped slightly to 15% from 15.2%, but it still has the highest jobless rate in the country. >> paul: monday, with six unemployed people for every availa

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lena pons of plic citizen says consumers need tknow that's illel. >> if ultimately the tnsaction is rejected th something havi to do with the paperwork bmitted incorrectly, that lo is sposed to be sustained by the dealer. >> reporter:hile the program provided a boost for the industry, some alysts worry it came at the expee of sales down t road. with inventory l and pent up dend depleted, sales are expected to be wk for the rest ofhe year. stephanie dhue, ightly business rort," washington. >> susie: some encouging news today out the u.s. job siation. 17 states, or roughla third of the nation, show decreases in unemploynt last month. sen states showed no change, but the other 26 shod increasingnemployment. that iludes california, nevada, rhode island, and georgia. they reached their higst level of joblessne since the record- keeping began 33 yrs ago. unemployment in chigan dropped slightly t15% from 15.2%, but ittill has the highest jobless rate in the country. >> paul:onday, with six unemployed peoe for every availae job nationwide, we look at hoto stand out from the crowd. >> susie: harley d

i remember, ed, your getting lena horne to tell you some secrets about her sex life. >> lena horne: ♪ again... >> bradley: ♪ i'm a rich, juicy, ripe plum again... >> horne: yeah, but you can't help your sexual nature, you know. that's what that line means. >> wallace: i really didn't like you back 30 years ago. >> stahl: even when we went to the "lighter side" in terms of subject matter, don still wanted us to bore in and ask the real shockers. >> bradley: someone told us that you spent most of the '70s stoned. >> who s... who was that? who said that? >> bradley: an... an ex-wife. >> an ex-wife? >> kroft: do you think you're immature? >> oh, yeah. >> kroft: in what ways? >> name one. go ahead, name one. >> kroft: sexually? >> seinfeld: yeah. >> kroft: why? >> seinfeld: i don't know. embarrassed. >> kroft: what do you mean? >> seinfeld: i am not going to talk about being sexually immature on "60 minutes". >> hewitt: somebody once said to me, would you do britney spears on "60 minutes"?& i said of course, i would do britney spears on "60 minutes," if she had something to say. >> stahl:

para no hacer leña del árbol caído los tuzos ganaron 7 a 1 uefa yarn un penal. los equipos se enfrentaron en esta edición. y tigres ganó 2 a 1. como decía sigalo por telefutura. a las 5 de la tarde del pacífico. >>> el nuevo galán tico del real madrid, pasó con éxito los exámenes físicos hablamos xavi alonso. y tiene que esperar que los galácticos parte dos re desbren de una gira por canadá. y pasamos a la nfl. hay un nuevo cristiano ronaldo. en cuanto a dinero. y es que, el quarterback. acordó una extensión de su contrato con 6 temporadas más y 97 millones de dólares. >>> cerramos con dos goles más al mejor de la copa oro 2009. este es con todo. el partido entre méxico y nicaragua. minuto 86, con el tiempo para un buen golazo. y ahora le toca el turno. la selección de la isla de guadalupe dijo presente. y quien recibe el pase. y para así como viene. un golazo. pose olviden de ir a votar. faltan segundos para walter, un par de segundos para el caballo que pasó sobre el automóvil. pero para el mundial, sudáfrica 20-10 faltan 309 días. aplaudimos. . >>> sí >>> 309

y dijo que debe ser muy cautelosa con sus declaraciones, porque no quiere echar más leña al fuego. y lo que queremos llevar es algo más a dentro del a dentro. hay mucha gente que nos reconoce. en nombre de dios, que nos salga bueno y lo que queremos es llevar un poco de música y alegría. >>> este concierto será el 20 de septiembre y es la primera vez que olga, asiste a los premios texas. el 22 de este mes en nuestra filial en austin. y el 23 en nuestra cadena hermana, galavisión. una cena en méxico, llegó la puesta pareja en méxico. william levy y jacqueline branco montes. en la mesa se sentaron uno al lado del otro. la actriz negó un romance y actor cubano rehusó afirmar si será papá por segunda vez. como se anuncio en portales de internet y periódicos. >>> de eso no quisiera hablar y sé que lo tienes que hacer y preguntar. pero nada más de eso. las cosas que mencionan esas páginas no son ciertas. lo demás, la verdad no prefiero hablar de eso. >>> me cae muy bien, somos muy buenos amigos, pero seguramente ya llegara el indicado ya van a ver, ya lo conocerán. te paso la lista. no,

. >> reporter: lena and her family fled afghanistan after the soviets invaded and she was about 9 years old. now as a journalist based in washington, she views this as an historic election. >> to be broadcasting this program from the united states, my people in afghanistan, i somehow represent that one day maybe if we overcome the challenges in afghanistan we will enjoy a democratic system as well. >> over the past couple of days, suicide bombers attacked their attacks against civilian and u.s. military targets. former ambassador newman told me today he believes that the violence in afghanistan is escalating because the taliban is trying to scare people away from the polls. back to you. >> chris gordon. chris, thanks. >>> a soldier from our area has been killed in afghanistan. sarge ernt first class william woods jr. was from chesapeake, virginia, he died on sunday in germany. he was shot two days earlier while on patrol in afghanistan. sergeant woods was signed to the second battalion in the 20th forces in glen arm, maryland. he was 31 years old. >>> a wave of explosions in iraq. 95 pe

. >> lena whitman worked as an engineer at ford from 1960 until the early '90s. following his father's work at the automaker during the great depression. >> for me, it's provided a great living, it's provided an opportunity to send all my kids to college, it's provided satisfactory income in my retirement. >> reporter: lino's first and only job out of college. three decades later his son followed in his footsteps. >> probably the first thing that interested me about it, is ford, we have like a family day and i always remember that as a kid, used the shear breadth of what was there and even then as a kid the engineering or the intuition of all the interesting parts and stuff like that. >> carl has been an engineer at ford since 1991. in fact, all three of lino's sons have worked at ford, something you see a lot of here. >> i think it's the most defining element of this company, it's a family company. i can't tell you the number of places i can go in our company where people come up to me and say i'm fourth generation also or my aunt and uncle knew your father and

y in the next day, manson himself accompanied the group to the home of supermarket executive lena laianca and his wife. the house today looks very much the same as it did when the manson family entered the property and tortured the couple before killing them. again, more cryptic words in blood like rise and helter-skelter, a reference to the beatles song of the same name. >> i think the manson murders were the iconic crimes of the 1960s. they incorporated everything from the sexual fascination of manson with his many women followers to the beatles music of the day. the outlandish courtroom circus that the trial became. >> reporter: manson was a 5'2" meglamaniac. he spent more than half his life behind bars before moving to california where he portrayed himself as a hippie and musician. he attracted the lonely, desperate. mostly women. they moved into an abandoned building on an old movie set outside of los angeles. what was behind the murders? >> manson said he did it to try to start a race war. his theory was that blacks would win in a race war against the whites. they would be unab

a jeffr brown conversation with james gavin, author oa new biography about perrmer lena horne.is excer, gavin talks aut how horne helped break th color barer in hollywood and beyond. >> every phe of the journey rough life somehow mirors the development of the civil rights movement and all kinds of cultur chans in this country. and i think that this is the story o everything th lead up to tis last presidential electio this -- her story the story of the peop who saificed andtruggled in order to mak this kind of mor change. >> lehrer: you n find the convertion with james gavin on our art beat page. >> lehrer: "washington ek" can be seen ter this evening on most pbs stations. tonight, special health care roundtable answering viewe' questions. we'll see you on-line, and ain here monday ening. have a nice weekend. i'm jim lehrer, thank u and good night major funding for the newsho with jim lehrer provided by: chevron. intel. supporting math and ience education r tomorrow's innotors. the national science foundion. supporting ecation and resear across all fields of science and engineer

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estimate now parked in a garage underneath the vancouver condominium of ryan jenkins's half-sister-a lenabout 700 kilometers -- miles, rather, to the west of us in vancouver, and that vehicle, while we haven't made the entire link and closed the loop, it does match the description of a vehicle seen by witnesses right down to the tinted windows. >> what about the description of his half-sister, alina? did anybody get a good look at the mystery blond? i guess if she paid cash there was a straight up look. >> well, the manager of the motel had initially been shown pictures of ryan jenkins' former fiancee and had told the media at that time he was 90% sure that she was the mystery woman. we now know that not to be true. i've seen a picture of alina jenkins, and certainly in a general way, you know, she does fit the description. as far as going back to the motel owner, given how unreliable his initial information was, it really didn't seem like a worthwhile exercise to return to him and show him alina's picture. >> got you. anita kay, criminal defense attorney, as you look at this, if the half

in a speech she said in 2001, she said a at lena could come up with a wiser choice than a white man. but she has more than enough votes to be confirmed unless something unexpected happens. and it looks like the cash for clunkers program will continue. the senate is expected to vote on adding $2 billion to that program, giving shoppers until labor day to visit a dealership and make a deal. republicans agree to vote on the plan today and the white house believes that could fund an additional 500,000 car sales. program was much more popular than anticipated. dealership have been taxed because of this. the program allows rebates of $3,500 to $4,500 for trading in gas guzzlers. but considering how popular this was, hopefully that money will last until labor day. >> we can hope so. sarah, thank you so mu. >>> a key group of senators, the gang of six may be holding the keys to health care reform. the president is expected to meet with six members of the finance committee. they say they are making progress, crafting a bill that it saves $100 billion from the trillion dollars estimate and get

. >> and also when they aired the interview with lena horne.everything. >> they sent out a note last night asking for our favorites, and i said i really don't want to highlight one. i just wanted to mention that that program is and was like its own nation at cbs news. don hewitt, the late arty bloom. those people to us as we walk through the halls, the behind the scenes people were superstars. it's a remarkable bar for just as we promise 100% fresh produce... and rancher's reserve beef, guaranteed tender 100% of the time. at safeway, we now promise something new. something big. a commitment... to thousands of new everyday low prices. so you can get what you want. when you want it. at the price you need. today... and tomorrow. that's our promise. that's ingredients for life. safeway. >>> all right, america. let's make a deal, as we welcome you back to "the early show" at 8:30. everybody remembers "let's make a deal," one of the most popular tv game shows of the '60s and '70s, hosted back then by the one and only monty hall. >> we cannot wait bec

. >> and also when they aired the interview with lena horne.ey sent out a note last night asking for our favorites, and i said i really don't want to highlight one. i just wanted to mention that that program is and was like its own nation at cbs news. don hewitt the late arty bloom. those people to us as we walk through the halls, the behind the scenes people were superstars. it's a remarkable bar for which >>> hello again. clouds overhead and lots of humidity on the ground. sharon will wrap up what is going on after marty's first warning weather. >> clouds this morning. there is no rain in them, not yet anyway. the forecast will call for a chance of a passing shower or thunderstorm. 88 and humid the high this day. in the mid-70s now. over to sharon at wjz tv traffic control. >> an oil slick on the northbound lanes of jfx is causing big headache for drivers. the northbound lanes are shut down. that is between fayette and north avenue. traffic is being detoured to falls way. charles street is another alternate. watch for two problems on the west

. >> clayton: hard to believe some people are this stupid, jose mel lena, what happened in the case.arcotics violation and like mr. battle received the letter and also chose to come and thinking he was going to receive money and he ended up going to jail that day. >> dave: i want to get one more but i have to ask you, i don't assume, at home watching "fox & friends," if they are fugitives, now, it received national press, and are you concerned you might be educating these fugitives about what is going on and how to avoid being caught? >> well, like i told our local media we are looking for creative ways to enforce the law and capture individuals that are wa wanted and when we do this we are educating criminals but at the same time we are lacking for ways to continue to do our job the way we are posed to do it. >> clayton: these guys come to you freely and some people actually showed up, to this mock named florida stimulus center, with their families, in tow. because they were expecting to come and get a check. is that right? >> that is correct. and one of these guys, albert wilson wa

lena give her a layered haircut. >> and the outfit is adorable. >> the little black dress.k you so much. >> thank you, jill, louis. >> home runs. >> complete home runs. >> home runs. home runs. >> you're officially ambushed by the "today" show. up next i guess i'm getting a little surprise. medication to lower your bad cholesterol but your good cholesterol and triglycerides are still out of line? then you may not be seeing the whole picture. ask your doctor about trilipix. statin to lower bad cholesterol, along with diet, adding trilipix can lower fatty triglycerides and raise good cholesterol to help improve all three cholesterol numbers. trilipix has not been shown to prevent heart attacks or stroke more than a statin alone. trilipix is not for everyone, including people with liver, gallbladder, or severe kidney disease, or nursing women. tell your doctor about all the medicines you take and if you are pregnant or may become pregnant. blood tests are needed before and during treatment to check for liver problems. contact your doctor if you develop unexplained muscle pain

we have some data out this morning which lena and i have been discussing.t mortgage lending, 1.6 billion pounds. that compares to the june figure of 2.2 billion pounds. so a decline in net mortgage lending. mortgage approval creeping up slightly, about 38.5 million in june. that net figure looked worse than we saw even just last month. >> that's right. mortgage approvals have been picking up, but they're down by some 60% since the beginning of this crisis. that is showing, of course, in a jobless, creditless, low income environment, what we need is improving homeowner confidence and releveraging for things to improve. so clearly, things are normalizing, but they're far from normal. what we've got from the net lending data is that things are still shrinking which is no surprise, given that the balance sheets are clogged with defaults for mortgages and the secondary market are still very much sdrurpted. also, another voice of caution coming yesterday, i think it was, from the acb mechanic mersch, a couple of the comments we heard saying we should not be overc